Luc Ferrari: Cycle Des Souvenirs

- Exploitation des Concepts No. 2 -
(1995-2000)

Parts I - X

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A large scale electroacoustic piece five years in the making that revisits numerous periods from Ferrari's previous five decades of work.

From the composer's liner notes:

"I have been composing a new series of works under the general title 'Exploitation des Concepts'. The point is to take concepts I have been experimenting with throughout my entire life as a composer, and to put them to use in every possible direction: in instrumental as well as electroacoustic music, in video, in multimedia installation, in new technologies as well as old ones.... These exploitations go in all directions: the Tautology, superimposed cycles, the minimalism of the Presque Rien series, architectures of chance, anecdote, narrative, everyday sounds, arte povera . . . souvenirs . . . etc. -- all these concepts that have always preoccupied me but which until now I hadn't really exploited. So we find images of my childhood, my street, my subway; places I passed through and which struck me enough to record them, certain villages in Italy or the sea in Portugal; of my present, too: workplaces, my souvenirs, my house. The Cycle des Souvenirs also means that all the elements are structured in cycles which, when superimposed, produce chance encounters."

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Get it, it's excellent - a wonderful listen: (1)